The wife of jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo has invited dozens of Chinese activists and luminaries to go to the Nobel award ceremony in Oslo on her behalf because mainland authorities are likely to block her from going.

Water rose to the maximum level at China's Three Gorges Dam on Tuesday, driving electricity output to full capacity at the world's largest hydropower plant for the first time since it began operating two years ago, its operator said.

Protesters burned a Japanese flag outside the country's consulate as hundreds marched Tuesday in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, the latest flare-up triggered by a territorial dispute over a chain of islands.